Nelson Livestock Company is a
family ranch operation run by Warren and Tom and Renee Nelson. Tom and
Renee's sons, Brent and Nathan, both teachers with Brent teaching at
Dawson Community College and Nathan teaching and coaching at Divide
County High School, help on the ranch when they can. The grandchildren
Taylen, Vallie, Gavin, Reggie, Logan and Carter also are getting to be more help
all the time. They particularly like to help when horseback riding is
involved.Nelson Livestock Company is operated on land homesteaded in
1909 by our great grandparents. We are celebrating our 100th year on the
same land this year. We are included in a book titled "The Weak Ones
Turned Back, The Cowards Never Started" compiled by Linda Grosskopf and
Nancy Morrison. If you get a chance, take a look at the article
and pictures.

We had our first Simmental calf in 1970. We have been breeding and
raising simmentals eversince. They have evolved from the traditional
colored simmental when we started to today where they are mostly solid
black or solid red and polled. Simmentals have come a long way and are
much different today than 40 years ago. We added purebred angus to our
herd in the mid-1990's. We now are establishing a herd of sim-angus
cattle. They are very popular these days. Our breeding sire selection
consists of big spread bulls (minus birth weight to high growth) that
are medium framed but have that explosive growth after birth. The
functional cattle are deep, thick, with growth and do-ability to work in
any environment.

Nelson Livestock Company's breeding program stresses maternal efficiency
though selecting for high fertility and calving ease while maintaining
moderate sized cattle with high efficiency. This disciplined search for
the AI sires and herd bulls results in a very efficient program that
will add value to your replacement females and feeder cattle. We do
invite you to contact us for more information or stop in for a herd
visit to see for yourself.

OPTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS

Nelson
Livestock Company's breeding program offers options and solutions as we
offer Americanized Black and Red Simmentals, Red and Black SimAngus and
Purebred Black Angus cattle that are performance selected. Performance
selected using EPDs, ratios, linear measurements, planned mating,
carcass testing and ultrasounding to help increase overall beef
production. Nelson Livestock Simmentals will provide you with muscle,
high cutability, growth, fertility, maternal power and calving ease that
will move them to be the continental breed of choice. Nelson Livestock
Angus will provide the hardiness, marbling, good females and market
acceptability.

Nelson Livestock SimAngus are a
combination of Simmental and Angus from a well planned crossbreeding program.
They will increase pounds of calf versus cow exposed by 20%. Using a crossbred
cow will give you 30% more lifetime production. Crossbreeding utilizing
hererosis is the only free lunch in the cattle industry.

Nelson Livestock Company's offering
of black and red Simmentals and SimAngus plus a selected group of Angus provides
the options and solutions of developing your program to straight breed or giving
you the option to utilize heterosis.